Sacred Heart Hospital School of Nursing - Carmen Sylva Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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men i vfa our opinion of the same upon conclusions arrived at from one or other of the various capacities in which we find the modern trained nurse. . Social service, public health, school inspection, insurance work, and the various calls of industrial nursing, are continuously drawing on and increasing the opportunities of the trained nurse. None would nor should decry the ad- vantages accrueing to the participant in these new Helds. Yet we would call attention to all concerned that primarily a nurse must be trained for and remain a nurse of the afflicted with a proper conception of her art, clearly holding aloft the torch of her profession or she will gradually grope about in her new departure. Now unmindful of the art and coldly following the science, at the oft-times ignorant and selfish request of her employers. Until scarcely a remnant remains of those professional ideals that should be held to and cherished. The trained nurse has developed with the art and science of medicine. And to this she owes her primary allegiance. Her evolution differs very little from that of her closely allied profession. And when diverted therefrom she has lost her anchorage just to the extent of the predominance of her new attach- ment. Never can she be independent of this training in the care of the sick and injured, nor should she allow herself to be incorrectly influenced by the demands of new fields. These varied demands on the modern trained nurse should not be ermitted to isolate her from the real art of nursing. But she should always P maintain a close relationship with the same or she will be like the specialist in medicine who can see only through the science of his particular subject, with- out the comprehensive grasp of his profession and its underlieing purposes, so essential to the maintenance of a valued place in the art and science of medicine. Cultivation of the art and application to the science 3 these two insepar- 'll ably united and moving hand in hand with the medical profession therefore, wi establish an anchorage without which a nurse will surely find herself afloat on an un- . - - h chartered sea. And without the guidance of a most necessary pilot. True t e profession of nursing has passed its majority and very properly asserts the . . . . . . . . d t prerogative of its justly earned position. But like the wise child who oes no forget its parentage, it will avoid many pitfalls by not overlooking and forgetting . . . . . . d the ever-present old home interest of the medical profession in its child an co laborer in the great work of mercy. W, A, HAUSMAN, IR., Chairman, ' -Trammg School Commnfiee.

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- Wa Class History HE RAIN drops played an important part in the Pitter Pattern orches- tra on the huge colonial window pane, so in order to while away the time, I went to Dad's old bookcase in search of a good novel and you'll never guess what I foundl Well, it was nothing less than my Happy Train- ing Days Book . I surely was glad for I was becoming very lonesome for the dear Sacred Heart Hospital, and its cherished memories of training days. I can't recall anything in my life whose every thought I relish as much as that of my dear Alma Mater . It was surely a Palace of Dreams , where even the very walls echoed Happiness . I fired myself comfortably in the old arm chair and gazed into the tire- lace and as the last glow of the burning embers was dying out, it seemed as if P f a little apparition, had emerged from the soft folds of smoke, there right before me comes a little picture of my Palace of Dreams. Let me see now, it doesn't seem clear enough to me - ohl I know just what s wrong. I haven't given'29 a part in the vision. It is all so clear to me now ' ' d h d. everything seems to be a bright reality in my rowsy ea I can see Helen Lapchak coming up the pathway in that memorable March of 1926. Lappy wasn't at the hospital long before she began to let me know her most original wit and humor. She loved the hospital heartily and thus she contented herself with everything and everybody and was thoroughly happy. Alon came Margaret Fina and Kitty Dunn from Allentown, or The g World's Greatest City . Peg was sociable and soon became quite a favorite with the patients. Kitty with her Irish wit and pleasing personality loved fun and as a rule featured prominently in many a rampage we had. QRS?